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It's depressing, "said fraud expert Avivah Litan, vice president and analyst for Gartner Research. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating how fraudulent returns were filed in 19 states through TurboTax software, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Social Security numbers, answers to security challenge questions and other private...

That is good news for patching up household balance sheets damaged by years of lost employment and savings, and also for boosting future Social Security benefits. Social Security is a benefit you earn through work and payroll tax contributions. Your Social Security benefit is calculated using a little-understood formula called the Primary Insurance...

It's depressing, "said fraud expert Avivah Litan, vice president and analyst for Gartner Research. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating how fraudulent returns were filed in 19 states through TurboTax software, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Social Security numbers, answers to security challenge questions and other private...

NEW YORK, Feb 10- Canadians who normally head south of their border for warmer weather are keeping closer track of their time in the United States because if they stay too long, they could lose their Canadian health benefits and might owe U.S. income tax. Just last year, the two countries implemented an agreement to scan passports and share the information, meaning...

Jan 28- Detroit homeowners will see a slight dip in their property taxes due by Aug. 31, the mayor's office said on Wednesday, noting the city's plan to recover from bankruptcy already accounts for a drop in the tax collections this year. Detroit, which emerged from bankruptcy late last year, is reassessing the values of real estate that are used in determining tax...

BEIJING, Jan 16- China will keep economic growth in a reasonable range this year and push forward fiscal reforms on taxes and overseas investment, top planning agency said on Friday. The government will take measures to further boost domestic demand in 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement. It will also aim to keep stable...

TOKYO, Dec 16- Japan's government is considering lowering the corporate tax rate, one of the highest among major economies, by 2.5 percentage points next fiscal year to increase corporate competitiveness, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been planning to lower the corporate tax rate over several years to around 20 percent...

Dec 10- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc is in talks to buy four properties from Blackstone Group LP and others for deferring tax payments from the sale of its Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, Bloomberg reported. The company is planning to buy San Francisco's Parc 55 Wyndham, two Waldorf Astoria resorts in Key West and one in Orlando, Florida, the report said, citing...

The local government had been planning to shut its bus and city train service after the island's Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla was unable to convince enough members of his party to agree to raise the tax on crude oil by 68 percent. Garcia Padilla said on Sunday that the oil tax increase would cost a typical Puerto Rican family $1.17 a week, while a planned tax...

SAN JUAN, Nov 30- Puerto Rico could face a public transportation shutdown starting Monday, as talks go to the wire on approving a controversial crude oil tax hike proposed to shore up the island's finances. In what would be a major escalation of Puerto Rico's debt crisis, the local government is planning to shut down its bus and city train service after Governor...

LIMA, Nov 20- Peru is planning to introduce a law to cut corporate and personal taxes as part of a reform package that analysts welcomed as an "audacious" attempt to revive a slowing economy. The government will submit a bill to Congress that will seek to gradually reduce company income tax to 26 percent by 2019 from the current 30 percent, announced Finance Minister...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14- Credit Suisse AG will face a public hearing over whether or not the U.S. government should allow the Swiss bank to manage Americans' retirement funds after its decision to plead guilty to tax crimes. The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday solicited public input for a Jan. 15 hearing on whether to issue its recommended 10- year exemption for Credit...

NEW YORK, Nov 5- Having your own tax-deferred retirement account is a bit like having one of those self-titrating morphine buttons that hospitals use: Press it whenever you need quick relief. That's especially true for early retirees trying to decide when to start Social Security, how to pay for health care and more. If you are buying your own health insurance via...

Sept 29- Civeo Corp, the provider of oilfield accommodation services recently spun off by Oil States International Inc, surprised Wall Street on Monday by saying it would not convert to a real estate investment trust and would instead relocate to Canada for tax purposes.